A roll of parchment paper in your kitchen is a smart investment, especially if you do any volume of baking, but ithasotheruses, too. If you find your parchment paper keeps curling up when you lay it out on a baking sheet, America's Test Kitchen has a solution: magnets.

If you're still baking brownies, cakes, or snack bars in a baking pan and then struggling to…
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How do they work? It's easy: just grab some round fridge magnets, and drop them on the corners of the parchment paper. Ideally, your cookie sheet or baking pan is made of metal, and the magnets will keep the parchment paper in place as they stick to the metal baking pan. They'll get hot in the oven just like the baking dish though, so be careful removing them when you're done!

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The folks at ATK have a few other tips for keeping your parchment paper from curling up when you bake with it at the link below as well, including pre-cutting sheets to match the size of your baking sheet and then storing the sheets in between two baking dishes, and spritzing the parchment paper with a little water or oil to make them stick to the cookie sheet. Hit the link below to see how they work too.